The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-05

Never mind now Out with your Doodle,
turn out your pockets, and be quick about
itm
The search began.
"Hury up Here comes the trains guardm
yelled out one of the brakemen.
''Who was that? Hush up, you lunatic,"
growled the leader, not, though, without an
uneasy glance to the rear. Here, my
men, stand together here!"-fearing
that some of his cut-throatS might take the
alarm and run. "ThiS way, all of YOU"
Just up to the programme, for in the next
second the door of car No. 3 began to cape,
and moment after a crash of musketry
turned the scene into o Cahel of yells and
confusion, and before the robbers could an
swer the shrieked commands of their leader
twelve of them were rolling in their blood
and the rest rushed for the woods in wild,
specifies terror. Volley after volleY sent
forth its storm of balls and slugs, and
when the beef-eaters at last did come,
though at a double-quick, the work was
done, and Ell Cura, notebook in hand, was
standing on the track, while his men
dragged up the corpses or emptied their PTS
tolls into the brain of some crippled wretch.
FRUITS OF VICTORY.
For the next six months the security of
that road was equaled only by the populari-
ty of its securities, aud the stockholders de-
cided to push its terminus to the capital of
the Republic Some twenty miles west of
Pueblo the Vega is tolerably level, but then
a second mountain range begins to rear its
ramparts of cliffs and chaotic rocks; and as
soon as the first train had entered that laby
rinth of the wilderness interrogation became
chronic again, and for nearly year the
plumber of every rich cargo proved that the
patriots had once more established perfect
system of espionage. They seemed to know
the contents of the mail-bags, and bnlhon
had 10 ha raa1 I,at.N ion, of
such expensive escorts that the rate of ex-
change exceeded that of every other civil
lied or semi-civilized country of the world
More than once, indeed, the cavaliers were
routed by the timely arrival of patrol,
but, time permitting, they rarely failed to
indemnify themselves by an exhaustive
search They would rip up bundles and
sachels, empty the contents of every trunk.
| make passengers strip to the skin. and in
| doubtful cases take their wardrobe along to
search it in the leisure of their bivouacs.
! Their ferreterS seemed to have developed a
sixth sense for the discovery of hidden val
| uables, but for all that one little Jew from
Vera Cruz once managed to battle their Wig
! lance.
AN oUTwITTED OUTLAW.
Just as they entered his car he turned
in his seat, an with an appearance of
anxious dispatch proceeded to squeeze a
| next window. They could not help noticing
his maneuver, and promptly ordered him to
stand up and fold his hands. When they
| collared him in due course, their spokesman
| at once turned to that window.
"What's this here! Try to beat us, you
poor sinner, did yous Logale-hold him,
let me see that bag; aha! bank notes;
| thought So"
"Oh, don't don'tn' walled the poor sinner,
that's my children's money! they will
starve; they will die; my poor little girls"
''Girls, you say? Send them this way,
| and we'll take care of Them" was the
brutal reply. "How much is that, any
! howe?
''Oh Lord, senior, all have in the world;
| $4,000 in American money-S12,300, l
| think"
is that 500" lingering over the notes
now"
A handful of silver was turned out, bit
| by bit-some $40, perhaps.
sob, Senior, you are surely not going to
take my last pennyT'
"D-n it, not" broke in in the leader.
''Let him keep that, and his watch, too.
| This will do u.s." showing the roll into his
| grip-sack. Good boy!" with a slap on his
| back
''Nextr with a complacent grin, which a
| week or SO later was probably seen ON the
| other side of his face, when he ascertained
| that those american bank-noteS" had been
| issued by the Confederate government. A
| package of less irredeemable securities had
| in the meanwhile been sticking safe under
| the cushion of the willy passenger, who had
taken that satchel along for the special pur-
pose of diverting attention from the main
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